Kouchie

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A small cone-shaped holder, often made of paper or card, into which cannabis is packed for smoking
2. Slang for a tapered tube or cone used to hold and smoke cannabis, typically rolled from paper
3. A cone-shaped device used to pack and smoke cannabis, commonly found in informal drug slang

Etymology: In the sense most people know it, a kouchie is a small cone-shaped holder, usually made from paper or card, used to roll cannabis into a tapered joint. The shape does the work: the narrow end is twisted or pinched closed while the material is packed into the wide end, and the finished cone is lit at the open end. The term is most associated with Caribbean and South African slang, where the object is common enough that the word is used without explanation. Where the word itself comes from is not clear. It looks like a shortening or respelling of a longer term, and the spelling variants found in informal use suggest it was passed along by speech rather than written down in standard references, so any specific origin would be a guess. The meaning is clear enough, but the history behind the name is still unclear.